Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-17
HOW WOMEN SHOULD DRESS.
A Few Words Of Advice from the Pas.
Tor Of . Church I'm MARYLAND.

From the Baltimore American.
Rev. L. b. Wilson, Of strawbridge NJ r church,
talked TO his congregation yesterday morning
about how women processing to be cody ought 10
dress In doing SO he touched upon various as
poets OF the female aress question. He he,d that
taste and adaptabilty had great deal TO do with
dress Some women may be clothed In calico at
three, four, and five cents yard aud look well and
be as cody, and often more 50 than others who
pay from IS TO SO yard for their drapery. and yet
are not happy. To dress after the godly fashion
does not imply carelessness lack OF neatness want
OF self-respect or appreciation O. the propre-
ties OF life, but IL does mean not giving
way TO extravagance and indulging In the taste
for grandness OF clothing ones self lie painted
rather gloomy picture, but a correct one, OF the
hard-worked clerk whose earnings required care
full handling IN order both ends 90 be with
out embarrassment, with a wife al home who used
his salary recklessy by baytng clothes TOO nne for
his purse and sending IN bills that made his face
long. Every wife ought 10 learn how 90 spend
money In the right way on dress and In the home.
II Is not uncommon for women before marriage TO
take great pains with their personal adOrnment,
and after th y becomes wives neglect themselves
and the house This discourages husbands and
sends them Elsewhere 20 look for Cheerful Moi ur =
II they can md them. Men wear pretty much
the same sort OF clothes, and at nearly the
styles in goods for women and the cost
changes every season This means Often
times additional expense; Men wear little Jewel
women's dress Is wrong anywhere-n the home,
church or social circle. tits often woman great
est curse 70 know some other woman who IL rlch.
she OF more limited means strives 70 dress up 20
the mark OF the richer, and In SO doing wastes
money without doing any good and separates her
self from her poorer companions little retrench-
ment here and there In dress viii put good papers
and magazines In the library, brighten up the
house, ana the cost VIII not De felt one dollar
and half saved on pair OF hid gloves brings the
church paper, a or 50 now and then good period
tcals- Twenty dollars for a bonnet Will educate
and keep girl In India for a year. One hundred
and nifty dollars Is low estimate for expenses for
An evening OUTFIT, which, it may be, VIII be worn
but half dozen times In one winter and never the
next because "thst Is the same dress she had last
season" Will be heard; but this amount expended in
helping the poor or educating the needy VIII do an
tncalculable amount OF good Fine dressing In
church Is out OF place. In this city some OF the
best women workers In the church 90 down In the
slums and alleys and look after the needy and un-
fortunate, but their silks and satins do not help
Is something just q little incongruous IN seeing
O nnely dressed woman kneeiing IN the dirt and
hitting q 1ewelled hand IN prayer for the
heather or those not 50 well on IN TINS
wearing apparel makes o gulf between the
rich and The poor. The latter draw con
trasts on conditions nurse resenlnehos
and the wives OF the employer and en-
pie say they want the poor 70 come into their nne
churches They welcome them freely; out as long
rs they dress they do they might as well close
tue doors, lock them up, and throw The keys away.
too painful Fine dressing leeds vanity. Silks and
satins appeal 70 temenine pride IN way taat
calico and cottons cannot Humiuty ana godn-
ness do not grow well In expensive clotnes Even
II women can AFFORD 70 dress richly. Is wrong for
them 70 do so: because what Is spent peyoho what
neaIness ORDER the properties OF lie snd Que re-
epect for society REQUIRE might be used more
profitably. The poor We have always with IN